Process of japanning hooks and eyes.



No. 67|,504. Patented Apr.9, l90l.

A. E. WAGGONEB.

PROCESS OF JAPANNING HOOKS AND EYES.

(Application filed Aug. 8, 1900.]

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT E. WAGGONER, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

PROCESS OF JAPANNING HOOKS AND EYES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 671,504, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed August 3, 1900. Serial No. 25 ,74'7. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT E. WAGGONER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usef ul Improvements in Processes of Enameling Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in processes for enameling hooks and eyes; and its object is to provide means whereby the same may be evenly coated throughout, ex-

cept a very small portion so located as not tobe observable, and to avoid markings or spots of uneven thickness of enamel due to contact of the hooks or eyes with each other.

My improved process consists, essentially, in attaching the hooks and eyes to suitable holding bars or wires, as shown in the accompanying drawings, by inserting said bar or wire between the thread-loops of the hooks and eyes, dipping the same, together with the bars or wires, in a suitable solution, and, finally, drying the coating of enamel, whereby the flaw in the enamel due to contact of the hook or eye with the support is so located as to be practically hidden from View and the hooks and eyes otherwise smoothly coated with enamel, as hereinafter more fully set forth, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective ofa frame and bars for holding the eyes; Fig. 2, an en larged detail of the same in transverse section; Fig. 3, a perspective of a frame and wires for holding hooks, and Fig. 4 a detail of the same in transverse section.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

A represents a frame of any suitable con struction having atits ends a series of springclips B, consisting of flexible wires bent in semicircular form near the middle and having one end attached to the frame and the other end nearto the attached end of the adj acent wire and adapted to yieldingly engage the sides of the flat bars 0 placed between said wires. and detachably held thereby.

D represents the eyes to be enameled, which intervals, with the respective thread-loops D D at each side of the bar and having their adjacent sides in contact with the respective sides of the bar and sprung apart thereby. The spring of the eye will hold the same securely in place on the bar during the balance of the process, and thus enable the coating of enamel to flow evenly over every part of the eye except the very small parts in contact with the bar, which parts are so located as not to be noticeable.

E represents another style of frame used for the hooks, consisting of a rectangular frame E of four suitable bars riveted together at their ends. The end bars are perforated at intervals and a series of wires F stretched at intervals across the frame. These wires are flattened at their opposite sides in planes vertical to the plane of the frame, and the hooks are placed astride these flattened wires in like manner as the eyes are placed on the bars 0, and the same results follow during the process. I find it necessary to provide these different bars or wires because of the difference in the space between the threadloops in the hooks and in the eyes, the latter being much wider apart, and thus capable of embracing a bar of considerable size, and in the hook the space is very narrow-in fact, closed, except as the hook is sprung apartand thus requires the thin flat wire to pass between the same.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The process of enameling hooks and eyes consisting of separately mounting the same on supports inserted between the thread-loops of the hooks and eyes; dipping the same in a suitable enameling liquid, and drying the coating thus formed whereby the flaw in the enamel due to contact of the hooks and eyes with the support is practically hidden from view, and the hooks and eyes otherwise smoothly coated with enamel.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT E. WAGGONER.

Witnesses:

PALMER A. J ONES, LUTHER V. MoULToN. 

